The Future, This Week

This week: why the tax office is interested in social media, robots in education and why phones that are not so smart are suddenly appealing. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

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Innovation is crucial to solving the toughest problems raised by rapid urbanisation, problems like public transportation, urban poverty, homelessness or unemployment. Today such problems are tackled by urban impact entrepreneurs faced with all the challenges of any entrepreneurs, as well as a unique set of challenges that come with doing social urban innovation. We talk to May Samali, Director at Tumml, about how can we help entrepreneurs make our cities better.

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In The Future, This Week Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business. This week: taxing robots, horse manure, disruption in hindsight and batteries that aren't boring.

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There are millions of news articles, blog posts, company profiles, and patents out there and we are increasingly facing an overload of information. The time we spend trying to parse the data to make informed decisions, but also to try to identify new connections and trends is growing exponentially. We talk to Dan Buczaczer from Quid about how machine intelligence is helping us interrogate the world’s collective intelligence.

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Are today’s innovation centres, hubs, labs the answer to driving innovation in business today? Or much like animals in farms or zoos, an attempt ‘tame the wild’? Together with Ella Hafermalz and Dirk Hovorka from the University of Sydney Business School, we explore the metaphor of human/animal interaction as it relates to innovation centres within organisations.

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Sydney Business Insights is a University of Sydney Business School initiative aiming to provide the business community and public, including our students, alumni and partners with a deeper understanding of major issues and trends around the future of business. We bring together insights from our researchers with insights from leading thinkers in industry, government and community. We start our journey by identifying six megatrends with complex impacts on business, economies, individuals and society: impactful technology, evolving communities, rapid urbanisation, empowering individuals, economic power shift and resource security.

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